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PRINTING STAMP. No. 341,771. Patented May 11, 1886.'

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ARTHUR H. ROGERS AND JAMES H. ROGERS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

PRINTING-STAMP.

SPECIFECATION farming part of Letters Patent No. 34:1771, dated May l1, 1886.

Application filed January 4,1886. Serial No. 187,511. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that we, ARTHUR H. ROGERS and JAMES H. Roe-nus, citizens of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have jointly invented new and useful Improvements in Selilnking Printing-Stamps, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in self-linking handstamps, the object being to provide, in combination with a table having an inking-pad thereon and with a die-block, improved means for moving said diesblock from said inking-pad to another part of the table, on which is laid paper to be printed, and vice versa, and improved devices for maintaining the die-block in proper position during said movements thereof.' l

In the drawings forming part of this specication, is illustrated in Figure l, in perspective view, aself-inking hand-stamp-embodying our invention. Fig. 2 illustrates a partial longitudinal section of a construction held to be the equivalent of Fig. l.

In the drawings, A is the table of the machine, made of suitable cast metal or other suitable material, and adapted, if desired, to be secured on a desk or other place for use. Two arms, b b, are attached to the table A on opposite sides thereof, which project above its surface, as shown, and at one end of said table are two upwardlyprojecting roller-bearings, c, between which is hung a roller, d, the ends ofthe latter entering suitable perforations in said bearings, said roller being permitted to have a free rocking motion therein. A guiding-arm, o, for the die-block, has one end engaging in a transverse perforation in the roller and the free end of said arm reaches over the table A between said arms b. A guiding or registering strip, e, is attached to the table just forward of the arms b, which serves to bring an envelope, piece ol paper, or other thing on which the die-bloek is to print into proper position under the latter. A yoke, li, consisting of a handle-piece, t', uniting the npper ends of two arms and the latter, has the lower ends of its said arms pivoted to the ends of said arms b on the table A, said yoke being capable of being swung from the position in which it is shown in the drawings to one which will bring its end in about the same relation to the opposite end of table A, its intermediate position while swinging being shown by the' or its printing characters may be of' ordinary A type suitably secured therein. Said diesblock is pivotally attached to the arms of said yoke hand between the said arms, as shown, and the abovelmentioned guiding-arm o passes through a perforation in said die-block in the plane of the face of the latter, the die-block being free to'slide on said arm; or the latter may be attached to said block and slide in the roller d, as shown in Fig. 2. An inkingpad, m, of the well-known description, is secured on the table A, said pad being shown under the dieblo'ck in the drawings, and said block being there shown as it is when being pressed against said pad to be inked.

The operationV of the above-described im.- provements is as follows: rllhe paper or other thing to be printed is laid on the table A, with its rear edge against the registeringfstrip e. The handlepiece t' of the yoke I1 is then seized and pressed downward more or less to force the face of the die-block against the pad m to ink the stamp, and then the end of said yoke is swung up and over, as shown by said dotted lines, toward the opposite end of table A, thereby lifting block K off from the pad m, and carrying it over the table and bringing it down upon the aforesaid paper to be printed upon, that portion of the yoke 7L extending beyond the die-block serving as a lever to give force to the impression of said block. The guidingarm 0, on which the die-block slides when swung from the inking-pad onto the table or from the latter back onto the inking-pad to 'ink the stamp, serves to keep the face of t-he latter in a proper plane when it is brought down for inking or printing, and prevents said block from swinging between the arms of the yoke.

The stamp could be manipulated successfully for printing without the intervention of the guiding-arm o, if desired, as the operator can, while swinging yoke 7L, extend a finger onto the top of the die-block, and thus insure its proper position with some degree of accuracy when it strikes the inkingliiad or paper; but

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the machine can be much more rapidly and effectively Worked when constructed as shown in the drawings.

What we claim as our invention is- 5 1.*A self-inking printing-stamp consisting ofl the table A, on which to lay the thing to be printed, the inking-pad m, attached to said table, the yoke h, pivoted on opposite sides of the latter, the rocking roller d, hung `on said frame, the guiding-arm o, engaging with said roller, and the die-block K, adapted to have printing characters attached thereto, pivoted between the arms of said yoke, and having a sliding connection With said arm, combined r 5 and operating substantially as set forth.

2. A self-inking printing-stamp consisting ofthe table A, on which to lay the thing tobe printed, the inking-pad on, attached to said table, the yoke 7L, pivoted on opposite sides of the latter, the die block K, adapted to have 2o printing characters attached thereto, pivoted between the arms of said yoke, and the guiding-arm o, pivotally connected to said table and passing loosely through said die-block in the plane of its face, combined and operating 25 substantially as set forth.

ARTHUR H. ROGERS. JAMES H. ROGERS.

Witnesses:

'WM. H. GHAPIN,

W. F. RICE. 

